Urban Economic Structures as Multidimensional Networks: A Complex Systems Framework for Analyzing Economic Development Trajectories

Figure 3

Comparing the network locations of individual MSAs. When only the entities present in an MSA are highlighted, the network location of that MSA is revealed. Here, the locations of San Francisco (a and c) and Dalton, Georgia (b and d), are compared first in network 1, with N = 68 (a and b) and second in network 3, with N = 353 (c and d). MSA locations are distinctly different with San Francisco appearing almost exclusively within a dense network core and Dalton almost exclusively outside that core. Differences in network locations can be quantified to give a proximity between any two economic structures. Links with value less than 0.4 are not shown in panels (a) and (b) while links with value less than 2 are not shown in panels (c) and (d).

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